Jonathan Ross Won't Host Hugo Awards, After Fan Outcry Sets Twitter Alight

[freaper]

"A comedian said something mean about me, I don't feel safe."

...

You know, maybe a good world war would have a silver lining after all.

You're not a comedian and that's the worst oxymoron I have ever seen, so don't go there (and no, sarcasm can't be applied here).

1. I'm not a comedian, but Jonathan Ross is (ostensibly). What's your point?

2. Oxymoron: A figure of speech containing two contradictory elements, such as "deafening silence".

"War might have a silver lining" is not an oxymoron, unless you define war as "a conflict with no upsides to anyone, ever". Which it isn't.

3. I wasn't being sarcastic. Or funny. It was an actual statement.

4. You seem to think that the "silver lining" would be "the death of these people". It's not. The silver lining would be that people grow a damn sense of perspective when it comes to "feeling safe".

The oxymoron I was referring to was the "good world war", though admittedly this discussion is so cringe worthy it should be dropped altogether (I was talking about the situation in Ukraine, btw).

I just think he doesn't feel safe after you made that statement. Your career on the Escapist is over lacktheknack, mark my words

Seriously butthurts gonna be butthurts

That's childish.

 

[Lost In The Void]

"A comedian said something mean about me, I don't feel safe."

...

You know, maybe a good world war would have a silver lining after all.

You're not a comedian and that's the worst oxymoron I have ever seen, so don't go there (and no, sarcasm can't be applied here).

1. I'm not a comedian, but Jonathan Ross is (ostensibly). What's your point?

2. Oxymoron: A figure of speech containing two contradictory elements, such as "deafening silence".

"War might have a silver lining" is not an oxymoron, unless you define war as "a conflict with no upsides to anyone, ever". Which it isn't.

3. I wasn't being sarcastic. Or funny. It was an actual statement.

4. You seem to think that the "silver lining" would be "the death of these people". It's not. The silver lining would be that people grow a damn sense of perspective when it comes to "feeling safe".

The oxymoron I was referring to was the "good world war", though admittedly this discussion is so cringe worthy it should be dropped altogether (I was talking about the situation in Ukraine, btw).

I just think he doesn't feel safe after you made that statement. Your career on the Escapist is over lacktheknack, mark my words

Seriously butthurts gonna be butthurts

That's childish.

Yessir, yes it was and yet still less childish than these SJW on twitter. I'm all for a good bout of public shaming but lets have some goddamn perspective before we start being afraid.

 

[Doclector]

Ross can be a bit of a prick at times, but this is a little far.

I'd hate to see what they'd do if Jack Dee, Jimmy Carr, or Ricky Gervais hosted it.

But it happens, I guess, and it isn't as if we can do anything to stop it happening. The majority's mind is made up, this is how we as a society respond to being slightly offended these days, a fact which I feel ambivalent about. On the one hand, it's a great thing that when people are truly offended, when someone has truly crossed the line, things can be done about it, people can speak out and are, in most cases, encouraged to, I don't even need to say why that could be a good thing, but on the other hand, people can speak out en masse about even the littlest offence. One wrong step could awaken a massive outcry, and these days, it's something that can wreck careers.

Definately strange.

 

[Evil Smurf]

What about Steven Fry as host? Nobody dislikes him!